Getting Medicaid Expansion on the Ballot in ID, WY, UT, SD, NE, OK, MO, FL, and MS in 2018

[Casprings]

I count 9 states that it is possible to get Medicaid expansion on the ballot in 2018. Are there any ongoing organizational efforts to to get this done? If we do good in 2018 in the House and Senate, expanding Medicaid in these nine states would be huge.

Is there any organizational efforts ongoing?

[David__77]

1. Even if its advisory things like this should go on ballot.

These campaigns can become means for mass mobilization and creating public opinion.

[Casprings]

2. And expanding Medicaid..

Would likely pass basically everywhere.

[xmas74]

3. I don't think Missouri is focusing on it.

Our big two are fighting Right to Work and legalizing medical marijuana.

Right to Work was on the ballot just a few years ago and lost big at the polls. In January when Greitens was sworn in as governor and the leg in Jeff City became a GOP supermajority the dirty tricks began. They immediately enacted their own legislation making Missouria Right to Work state. It was to go into effect August 21 but a huge ballot initiative backed by the AFL-CIO obtained enough signatures to keep it from going into effectuntil after November 2018, when it will be reintroduced on the ballot.

Medical marijuana is the other push because they believe they can get off year voters to show en masse to the polls.

(Btw-just gave the Greitens spiel because everyone here needs to know who he is. He's just like Paul Ryan and his closest governor friend is Scott Walker- they actually visit regularly. And he has plans to get into the White House.)